Installation Guide Installing the STLinux distribution

Installing the STLinux distribution

Once your Linux PC is set up, you need to install the STLinux distribution on it. The STLinux distribution sits alongside the host's own Linux distribution, and makes no changes to it. Any changes which are needed to the host's installation are described later in the Getting Started Guide.

There are three steps to installing the STLinux Distribution:

1. First you need to get a copy of the distribution. You may already have this, either on a CD, or as part of an application specific distribution. If not you will need to download it from the STLinux FTP server. The recommended way to do this is to download an ISO image.
2. If you have downloaded an ISO image in the previous step, then you will need to make it available to Linux. This can be done either by writing the image to a CD-ROM, and then mounting the CD-ROM, or by mounting the ISO image directly using a loopback device.
3. Setting up the directory where the STLinux distribution will be installed. Normally this simply consists of checking that you have enough space on that disk partition.
4. Once you have the RPMs, then they need to be installed. We recommend that you do this using the installer provided on the CD. However it is also possible to install the packages which make up the distribution directly, which can be useful if you need more control over exactly what is installed, or are performing an upgrade of an existing installation.